Greta Christina posted the second half of her discussion of race, gender and atheism: What We Need to Do — And Why: targetting diverse speakers for conferences, taking complaints about diversity seriously, and continuing to talk.

Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, has issued a statement calling the government treatment of Alan Turing in the 1950s “appalling” and apologising (via Brenda and undoubtedly many others)

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has published a podcast of a discussion from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas: “Sex, Knowledge and Society. Is science culturally based? Does gender play a role in scientific study? And why do famous philosophers always have beards?” (via Clinton Roy in email)